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Trade and Economic Issues in the - Second Bush Administration
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Arne Hallam, chair and professor in the Economics Department, will moderate this panel discussion by ISU faculty: Peter F. Orazem is University Professor of Economics and Director of the Industrial Relations Program at Iowa State, and currently Koch Visiting Professor of Business Economics at the University of Kansas; John C. Beghin is Professor and Marlin Cole Chair in the Economics Department, director of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute and the head of the Trade and Agricultural Policy Division at CARD with research focusing on agricultural trade policy; David Frankel is an Associate Professor of Economics and an applied economic theorist with interests in social problems and urban economics; and Balmurli Natrajan is assistant professor Anthropology with teaching and research covering different aspects of globalization. John Donaghy is director of campus ministry at St. Thomas Aquinas Church and Catholic Student Center. His areas of ministry and research include social justice and religious and philosophical ethics.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration - The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till: Film and Lecture - Keith Beauchamp
7:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Keith Beauchamp is a filmmaker whose documentary on the murder of Emmett Till was recently featured on "60 Minutes." He traveled extensively between New York and Mississippi to reinvestigate the murder and subsequent trial, locating witnesses who had never before spoken about the case. On May 10th, 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice re-opened this 50 year-old murder case citing Beauchamp's documentary "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till" as a major factor in their decision as well as the starting point for their investigation. Keith Beauchamp will provide opening remarks and lead a discussion following the showing of the 70-minute documentary.

One Woman's Path to Leadership - Elizabeth "Betsy" Hoffman
4:00 PM – 220-230 Scheman Building, ISU Center - Elizabeth "Betsy" Hoffman has been president of the three-campus, 52,000-student University of Colorado system since 2000. She previously served as Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. President Hoffman earned a doctorate in history from the University of Pennsylvania and a second doctorate in economics from the California Institute of Technology. She holds an undergraduate degree in history from Smith College and an master's degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania.

TSUNAMI VICTIMS MEMORIAL
4:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - A campus memorial service will be held to remember the victims of the South Asian earthquake and tsunami. The Saman Dance from Aceh will be performed by Indonesian Student Association members. Speakers include President Gregory Geoffroy, Ames Mayor Ted Tedesco, GSB President Sophia Magill, Tahira Hira, Roy Salcedo, and others to be announced. The event will close with a candle-lighting on the Terrace of the Memorial Union. Tsunami Relief Project volunteers will collect donations of cash and checks around campus through Friday, January 21.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Celebration 2005 - COMMUNITY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
7:00 PM – Boys and Girls Club of Ames - 210 South Fifth - Celebrate with song, story and birthday cake. An Ames tradition! Parking behind 20th Century Bowling.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Celebration 2005 - Bodies and Souls Moving for Justice
3:00 PM – Collegiate United Methodist Church, 2622 Lincoln Way, Ames, Iowa - A community gathering to engage Martin Luther King's challenges concerning racism, militarism and poverty.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday Party
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Members of the groups Shy of a Dozen and the Gospel Soul Innovators will perform. Speakers include Provost Ben Allen, Black Student Alliance President Shelley Whitehead and Government of the Student Body President Sophia Magill. Birthday cake graciously donated by the Campus Dining Services.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Celebration 2005 - Concert: LET FREEDOM RING
11:50 PM – Central Campus - A carillon concert in honor of Dr. King with Dr. Tin-Shi Tam, carilloneur.

Iraq: Journey of Hope and Peace - Peggy Gish
12:00 PM – Cardinal Room, MU - Peggy Gish went to Iraq in an attempt to prevent war, but on March 20, 2003, the bombs began falling on Baghdad. Peggy Gish tells her personal and moving story of the Iraq before, during, and after the 2003 war. She is a Christian Peacemaker Teams worker who has spent considerable time in Iraq over the past few years. In 2003 she was awarded the Yoko Tada peace award in Japan for her work in Iraq.

Alien Corn: Agriculture and Intercultural Communication - Ron Scollon
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Ron Scollon is a professor of sociolinguistics at Georgetown University and editor for Visual Communications. His current research focuses on discourses of food in the world system, and he will use examples from the project to discuss how intercultural communication factors into global issues of corn production and distribution. Selected Publications: Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis; Nexus Analysis: Discourse and the Emerging Internet; Professional Communication in International Settings; and Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach. Quentin Johnson Lecture in Linguistics